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Keep these in mind as you read and study EACH REALM (chapter).
1. Defining a Realm: Know the physical, cultural,
economic, and/or historical criteria (characteristics)
used to define the realm.
NOTE: THIS WILL BE ON EACH UNIT EXAM. BE ABLE TO DO THIS!
2. Know where most people live in the realm. What PHYSICAL CRITERIA helps explain where most people in the world live (we discussed five in our online lectures)? Assess how well the 5 reasons explain the population distribution. Do they apply to this realm or not? Describe where most people in the realm live Do not say "in the cities". In which general areas are the cities located?
Apply the "5 reasons" we discussed in our online lectures to the distribution of population in this realm. Do they help us to understand the population distribution in the realm or are there exceptions to the "5 reasons"?
3. Know the CONCEPTS, IDEAS, and TERMS listed on the first page of each chapter AND the italicized words within the chapter. ALSO, know EXAMPLES of the terms from the realm being studies. It is strongly suggested that you make a list of these terms with their definitions and examples. Each unit exam will have a question where you DEFINE and GIVE EXAMPLES of these terms.
The textbook website has a webpage that will help you learn the
definitions of some of these words. See:
http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=resource&bcsId=2733&itemId=047171786X&resourceId=6921
NOTE: THIS WILL BE ON EACH UNIT EXAM. BE ABLE TO DO THIS!
4. You must understand map SCALE. Know the difference between a large scale map and a small scale map. Each unit exam will have a question about map scale. See Figure G-3. page 9, of the textbook and read the "Scale and Detail" paragraphs on page 8.
5. Where in the realm has there been wars or conflicts including international wars, civil wars, guerrilla wars, and cultural conflicts. It is suggested tat you make a list of the conflicts in each realm including "who was fighting whom".
6. It would be useful to review the map quiz locations for each realm.
7. Know the general level of development of each realm .
8. Have a good idea of the primary religions in the various countries in these realms
9. Have a good idea of the primary colonial powers in the various countries in these realms.
10. Have a good idea of the pattern of climates (A, B, C, D, and H) in the realms
11. Be able to draw the realm borders on a blank outline map.
For the following conflicts know:
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1. The name "North Africa and Southwest Asia" is rather cumbersome. Why is it still a better name for the realm than the following?
2. North Africa and Southwest Asia has been, and still is, an area of many cultural conflicts. Why? What are some of the divisive (centrifugal) forces in the realm?
3. Know WHERE in the realm the majority of the population practices Shia (Shi'ite) Islam and WHERE most practice SUNNI Islam. What % of Muslims are Shia and what percent are Sunni?
4. Where are the three main area of oil reserves in North Africa and Southwest Asia? (Be able to locate on a map ) List some of the effects that oil production has had on the realm.
5. Study figure 7-15 on page 378 of the textbook (or see map at the bottom of this webpage) and be able to locate the following:
6. Identify, locate, and discuss the two ancient culture hearths found in the realm. Remember, geographers study WHERE and WHY THERE?
7. What are the "Five Pillars" of Islam?
8. Use the spatial diffusion of the Arab-Islamic Empire to explain the following
9. Where are the Islamic parts of Europe?
10. What is the Maghreb?
11. Where in the North Africa and Southwest Asia realm
do they downhill ski on snow?
[See: http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/geg101blended/gegskiing.htm]
12. According to our textbook, what is the "Middle East"?
13. IRAQ
14. What are the "Empire States"?
15. What language do they speak in Iran, Turkey, North Africa?, the Middle East?
16. What is Turkestan?
17. Who is fighting whom in Afghanistan? What are the Taliban?
18. Know the major climatic regions (A. B, C, D, H) of the realm.
1. South Asia is described as a "physically well defined realm". On an outline map LABEL the physical features along these borders that divide South Asia from the neighboring realms
2. Why is Muslim Pakistan included in the South Asia Realm which includes many religions (Hinduism, Muslim, Buddhist) rather than in the North Africa and Southwest Asia Realm which is predominantly Muslim?
3. What and where are the tribal areas of Pakistan and what role do they have in the "War on Terror" and neighboring Afghanistan. Be sure to mention the Taliban.?
4. On a blank outline map OUTLINE AND LABEL the three physiographic regions of South Asia and briefly describe each physiographic region. Discuss the role of PLATE TECTONICS in creating these physiographic regions
5. Using the blank
outline maps explain:
[This means DRAW on the map to help explain your answer.]
a Why the WET monsoons are wet?b. Why the Thar desert and the state of Tamil Nadu on the southeast corner of India get LITTLE rain during the WET Monsoons?
c. Why the WET monsoons hit the Western Ghats first, the Ganges Delta second, and the upper Ganges valley latest?
d. Why the DRY monsoons are dry?
e. Why the Indian state of Tamil Nadu gets little rain during the WET monsoons and more rain during the DRY monsoons?
f. Use the following concepts and features in your answers and label them on the map when appropriate:
1) Arabian Peninsula
2) Arabian Sea
3) Himalayas
4) Sea of Bengal
5) Western Ghats
6) Tamil Nadu
7) Thar Desert
8) Ganges delta
9) upper Ganges valley
10) orographic rainfall
11) rainshadow effect
6. List and briefly explain the CENTRIFUGAL forces and the CENTRIPETAL forces found in India. Include:
7. EXPLAIN whether you would describe South Asia as a
8. For EACH stage of the Demographic Transition discuss:
a. the crude birth rate -- is it high? low? increasing? decreasing?
b. the crude death rate -- is it high? low? increasing? decreasing?
c. rate of natural increase (or the population growth rate) -- is it high? low? increasing? decreasing?See the "GROWTH RATE" line at the bottom of the figure below.
9. For each of the conflicts listed below (1) LOCATE it on the map, (2) discuss WHO IS FIGHTING WHOM, and (3) discuss the cultural, historical, and/or economic differences that contribute to the conflict
a. Kashmirb. Sri Lanka
10. Of the twelve world realms, how does South Asia rank economically? Why are they so poor?
11. Know the major religions of the realm and where they are located.
12. Trace the effects of colonialism on the realm and the "partition".
13. Consider the following about Pakistan:
14. Understand the conflict in Kashmir
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/country_profiles/1157960.stm
15. How has a country of 14 major languages and several major religions endured? How has India used the borders of its internal States to promote stability?
16. Know the following about Bangladesh
17. Discuss the conflict in Sri Lanka (insurgent state).
18. What is the difference between a "state" and a "State"? [small "s" vs. capital "S"] (see page 24) What is meant by "India is a state of many nations" ?
19. Today, what is the major religion of:
20. Know the major climatic regions (A. B, C, D, H) of the realm.
1. Why might it make sense to discuss China, Mongolia, and North Korea separately from Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea? Contrast them economically, politically, historically, and physically.
2. On the map of "the Chinese realm" below locate the PHYSICAL BARRIERS that define the realm
3. China is often called a "Land of Contradictions" . Each of these "contradictions" has a "spatial component". This means you can locate the opposing characteristics on a map. Locate each of the contradictions listed below on the maps . This means label WHERE on the map you would tend to find the characteristic. You may want to BRIEFLY describe what the contradiction and their locations mean. (Several maps are included to avoid cluttering.)
1. Authoritarian Government / Opening of the Economy
2. Inward-Looking History / Outward-Looking Future
3. Rural Interior / Urbanizing Coast
4. Wheat Growing / Rice Growing
5. Tillable Land / Non-Tillable Land
4. Compare the physical geography (climate), relative latitudinal location, and the size of China with that of the United States.
5. What and when were the "Opium Wars"? Briefly outline the comparatively short European colonial history of China.
6. Discuss the Chinese civil war of the twentieth century. Who were the Nationalists and Chiang Kai-shek? Who were the Communists and Mao Zedong? What was "the long march"? Who won and when? Which force had to retreat to the island of Formosa (Taiwan)?
7. Communist China:
8. Who colonized and what is the current status of Hong Kong? Macao?
9. The textbook says that China remains an empire. Discuss the role of the minorities in China. Compare the map of China's ethnolinguistic areas (figure 9-9, p. 474) with the map of world religions (figure 7-2, pp. 348-349 ). Where in China is Islam the religion of the majority?
10. What is "China proper"?
11. Briefly discuss Tibet (Xizang), Xinjiang, Mongolia
12. Briefly discuss the amazing economic gains along China's Pacific Rim including:
13. What and When was the Meiji Restoration in Japan?
14. Japan: Land bridge, Ainu.
15. Where is Japan's core area?
16. The Koreas
17. What is Taiwan's current political status?
18. Know the major climatic regions (A. B, C, D, H) of the realm.
19. Other
1. Be able to label all of the physical features labeled on the graph below"
2. Which land border of the Southeast Asia realm does NOT have a physical barrier?
3. A state's (country's) physical shape - its territorial morphology - are among the factors that affect its cohesion and political viability.
Geographers have defined five categories of territorial morphology:
1. Elongated
2. Compact
3. Fragmented
4. Protruded
5. Perforated
a. Be able to identify the territorial morphology type of maps of various countries
b. Discuss how the a state's physical shape - its territorial morphology - can affect its cohesion and political viability using examples from countries in Southeast Asia. EXAMPLES:
4. Why are the arithmetic population densities relatively low in Southeast Asia and very high in neighboring realms?
5. Know the colonial powers of Southeast Asia and South Asia and where they colonized. Who were the colonial powers in the areas labeled: A, B, C, D, and E on the map below?
6. Know the dominant religions and their locations in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and East Asia.
7. What is "Indochina"? What has been the roles of India and China in Southeast Asia?
8. Where, when, and why was the Indochina war (Vietnam War, Domino theory)?
9. What was Kampuchea? (Have you seen the movie "The Killing Fields"?)
10. How has its religious diversity, its protruded shape, and al-Qaeda affected Thailand's stability?
11. Burma / Myanmar: protruded shape, isolated core area, economically poor, military dictatorship, conflicts with the Shan and the Karen, Golden Triangle,
12. Malaysia: Mainland-island type of fragmented state, Islamic, "Mecca Corridor", devolutionary forces
13. Singapore: Chinese, entrepot, economically successful
14. Indonesia: importance of Jawa, Centripetal forces (300 ethnic groups, 250 languages, fragmented, mostly Islamic, Hindu on Bali,Islamic revivalism) world's largest Muslim population, 4th most populous country in the world, four major territorial components, Aceh problem, Papua in the Pacific Realm,
15. East Timor: independence from Indonesia in 2002, exclaves,
16. Philippines: half century of US rule, Moro Islamic insurgency
17. Where do most people of the realm live? (In what type of areas). Do the "5 reasons" that we discussed in the Introduction chapter apply to this realm? If southeast Asia is sparsely populated and the neighboring realms of East Asia and South Asia are densely populated why weren't there large migrations into Southeast Asia?
18. Which SE Asia state is the most populated and what is its religion?
19. Define the following types of boundaries: antecedent, subsequent, superimposed and relict and give an example
20. Which country has been historically called "Siam"?
21. What is Singapore's major ethnic group? Why is Singapore relative's location important (Entrepot)?
22. Name of the small and rich sultanate in SE Asia.
23. Names of the islands that make up Indonesia.
24. Which country has the largest Islamic population in the world ? (Indonesia)
25. Know the major climatic regions (A. B, C, D, H) of the realm.
VOCABULARY
North Africa and Southwest Asia
South Asia
East Asia
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